Word: epithet
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ECONOMICS and athletics have long had a close relationship at Harvard; certainly, the Ec Jock is far more suited to the four letter epithet than his Gov counterpart. Finally, the mythical link between Kirkland House and the Economics Department has been made public...
...upper windows. In scarcely more than a week the Hungarian dream of independence was over. A puppet government headed by Janos Kadar, 44, set about "normalizing" the country through executions, show trials and brutal repression. The purge made Kadar the most hated man in Hungary and won him the epithet the "Butcher of Budapest...
Unfortunately your editorial loses much of its value by combining an overzealous use of emotional epithet with several inaccuracies of fact. In addition you prejudge a decision of the Board on a specific set of cases before the final decisions have been made and clearly without having many of the facts that are being considered by the Board. This attempt to decide a case in the pages of a newspaper does little to promote the cause of the reasoned, impartial justice that you claim to espouse...
That's the only epithet the squad has. The 1986 Ivy League Champions. That and second in the country...
...proposed ordinance is only a first step toward turning Councilman Vellucci's epithet into a reality, toward making Cambridge a sanctuary city. Though temporary shelters are a bandaid on the homeless problem, they are necessary. Unfortunately, human concern often turns from a moral imperative regarding the plight of the homeless in someone else's neighborhood, to a personal threat and inconvenience in one's own. It is precisely at this time, when we appreciate the support and security of our own communities, that we can help others to find a place called home...